Health update (or sickness update, for the cynics)

Today's winner on the Wheel O' Symptoms:

Pain between the shoulderblades. This really narrows down my troubles to something in the digestive areas, so that means I just need to work on figuring out what I can eat safely and then work back up from there. I'm feeling a LOT better than I did last Saturday at this time (when I was alternately praying for death and thinking about calling out sick from work, which I never do) but still not 100%.

Please, there is no need to comment and inform me that pain between the shoulderblades could be a heart attack. I'm well aware that the symptoms of a heart attack for people of my sex include shoulderblade pain, nausea, feelings of being suddenly hot or cold, unusual exhaustion, and anxiety. While I'm sure that women who report having had heart attacks had these "symptoms" prior to them, given that many women of the age for heart attacks have those symptoms 9 days out of 10 (even if you take "unusual exhaustion" to mean something more than one's everyday exhaustion) I don't think it's a good prediction tool.

So, I'm trying to determine if I feel up to staying up Wednesday morning to cook and entertain, and I'm thinking I may not, which is a bummer, but I'd almost rather have the sleep. I might just reschedule for December 1st or something... after all, holidays are when we make them, aren't they?

I knew that would come in handy.

Bed's on casters, can't raise the head of the bed without risking caster-astrophe.

But I did manage to stuff a fitted sheet, folded in half, with about four laundry baskets full of winter clothes, and make a big pillow thing that I put under the mattress at the head of the bed. Go me! So the head part of the bed is raised about 6" at the very top, and has a gentle curve down to the foot. Should work fine.

Going to test it out now.